Hi,
I am storing the data in my application in a file so I can save/load between sessions.
I have class X, which contains a List that stores other objects of class X, to create a tree structure.
In my application I have a field which is a reference to the current object X that the user is looking at.
The problem I am having is that BinaryFormatter is doing a deep copy of the objects, rather than a shallow copy, so when I load the file the reference field is no longer pointing to an object within the tree, but to a copy.
I could add an ID int to the class and then search through the tree after it has been loaded to get a new reference, but it feels like a poor workaround to me.
Is there a solution to this without resorting to ditching BinaryFormatter and manually writing a way to store the objects in the file?
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Never mind, it appears it does work if you combine the two into an array and serialize/deserialize at the same time.
I am storing the data in my application in a file so I can save/load between sessions.
I have class X, which contains a List that stores other objects of class X, to create a tree structure.
In my application I have a field which is a reference to the current object X that the user is looking at.
The problem I am having is that BinaryFormatter is doing a deep copy of the objects, rather than a shallow copy, so when I load the file the reference field is no longer pointing to an object within the tree, but to a copy.
I could add an ID int to the class and then search through the tree after it has been loaded to get a new reference, but it feels like a poor workaround to me.
Is there a solution to this without resorting to ditching BinaryFormatter and manually writing a way to store the objects in the file?
[edit]
Never mind, it appears it does work if you combine the two into an array and serialize/deserialize at the same time.
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